Suture line failure in intra-abdominal colonic trauma: Is there an effect of segmental variations in blood supply on outcome?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 359-368

  Dente, Christopher J ^a,b   Patel, Ankit ^a   Feliciano, David V ^a   Rozycki, Grace S ^a   Wyrzykowski, Amy D ^a   Nicholas, Jeffrey M ^a   Salomone, Jeffrey P ^a   Ingram, Walter L ^a   Fabian, Timothy C ^b   Ivatury, Rao ^b   Nagy, Kimberly ^b   Stewart, Ronald M ^b   Malhotra, Ajai ^b   Marguilies, Daniel ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Glenn Memorial Building ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; COLON ANASTOMOSIS; COLON INJURY; COLON SURGERY; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SIGMOID; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMA; SUTURE; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TRANSVERSE COLON; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; WOUND; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLON; COLON, SIGMOID; COLOSTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SUTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 27844467143     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000185034.64059.96     Document Type: Article

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